Reading with Style discussion

Post your completed tasks here. In order to help us better manage our score keeping: PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE and do not delete posts.

Please use the add book/author link for the book titles and include a link to both title and author in your post.

If using an outside source to qualify a book for points, please be sure to post in the appropriate task thread prior to posting in this thread.

Sample Post

10.6 Formal Introduction (Anika's task)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 "He thought no more of the shower spoiling the racecourse", 20.6)
+ 5 Multiple [if this task has been claimed before]
+10 Aged (lived 1828-1910)
+10 1001
+20 Jumbo (964 pages)

Task total = 65
Season Total = 255 (assuming mid-season with 190 pts claimed earlier)

Clue(do)

Sample Post

Assuming previous claim was in the Ballroom with a book published in 2013:

15.3 Clue(do)

Ballroom --> Conservatory (3 steps)
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Suspect: Mrs White (a character dies)
Weapon: Candlestick (set 100% in Europe)
Room: Conservatory (author initials AT in Conservatory)
Pub. 1873

+15 Task
+ 5 Old
+ 5 Big (794 pages)

Task total = 25
Season total = 280 (assuming midseason with a previous total of 255, and you have already claimed books for 15.1 and 15.2)

10.1 Pick a Year

Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
Published in 2023, book 1

10 points
Total 10 points

20.8 Books in Books (Apple's task)

Autobiografie van een flat
Otto de Kat

Mentions Exodus by Leon Uris
20 points
+ 10 (aged)
Total: 40 points

15.1 Clue(do)

I start with Mrs. White in Kitchen
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Suspect: Miss Scarlet (Petrona, a major character is young single)
Weapon: Rope (at least 90% in Bogota, Colombia)
Room: Kitchen (K & N in title word Drunken)
Pub. 2018

Task Total - 15 pts
Season Total - 15 pts

15.1 Clue(do)

Starting with Mrs Peacock in the Billiard Room
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun
Suspect: Mrs Peacock (character has a pet cat)
Weapon: Revolver (author born in USA)
Room: Billiard room (author initials LB in Billiard)
1967

+15 Task
+ 5 Old

Task total = 20
Season total = 20

20.8 Books in books

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

20 task (see below)
5 combo 10.2 (pg 206: "…my hair still wet from the shower?')
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25

Running total: 25

many books are mentioned:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Four Dimensions of Philosophy, Metaphysical, Moral, Objective, Categorical by Mortimer J. Adler
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott
A Guide to Bird Behavior, Vol. 1 by Donald Stokes
A Guide to Bird Behavior, Volume 2 by Donald W. Stokes
The Art of Cooking with Herbs and Spices by Milo Miloradovich
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Soul of Things; Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton
The Kingdom of Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene
The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

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20.8 Books in Books (Apple's task)

Autobiografie van een flat
Otto de Kat

Mentions Exodus by Leon Uris
20 points
+ 5 ( combo 20.7)
+ 10 (aged)
Total: 45 points

20.7 Read a book with MPG of autobiography, memoir, or biography

Shame
Annie Ernaux

20 points
+ 5 ( combo 20.10)
+ 10 (aged)
Total: 80 points